5 Guest Avenue, Poole, BH12 1JA

5 Guest Avenue is a three-bedroom detached house in Poole (BH12 1JA). It has a recorded floor area of 58 m² (around 624 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2025) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it D (February 2009); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 58 m² this is the 4th smallest of 26 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 44–196 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (32 versus a best of 85). Other recorded features include outbuildings.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 8.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£897/sq ft) was about 386.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 58 m² it sits well below the postcode median (87 m² across 25 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £560,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.